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2023 Special Issue Rev. Eur. & Comp. L. 77 (2023)
Russian Genocide in Ukraine as an Attempt to Destroy the Ukrainian Nation

handle is hein.journals/recol2023 and id is 79 raw text is: Review of European and Comparative Law 1 2023 Special Issue, 77-88 https://doi.org/10.31743/recl.16607 Received: 30 August 2023 Accepted: 27 October 2023 Published: 22 December 2023 Russian Genocide in Ukraine as an Attempt to Destroy the Ukrainian Nation Volodymyr Pylypenko PhD, Associate Professor, Faculty of International Relations, Lviv University of Business and Law, correspondence address: Kulparkyvska 99, Lviv, Ukraine, e-mail: vpylypenko77@gmail.com https://orcid.org/ 0000-0002-9560-2754 Keywords: genocide, nation, international crimes, national group, natiocide Abstract: The article assesses the recent and ongoing crimi- nal acts of the Russian Federation in terms of their compliance with existing international crimes, in particular with the crime of genocide, with the aim of correct criminal-law qualification. It provides an analysis of actus reus of genocide as an inter- national crime under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (hereinafter: Conven- tion). The illegal action of the Russian Federation is analysed in the context of the so-called denazification;' as the main goal of the full-scale aggression of Ukraine. The author attempts to show the distinction between the groups protected by the afore- mentioned Convention and the term Nation;' which seems to have much broader sense. The author also concludes that the actus reus of the Russian perpetrators is not aimed solely at the destruction of any of the groups of the Convention, but actually at the destruction of the Ukrainian nation, its culture, language, history and statehood. In this context, the views of Raphael Lemkin, the founder of the concept of genocide as an international crime, are analysed. The necessity of interna- tional legal qualification of the actions of the Russian Federa- tion as a new international crime has been substantiated and its conditional name - natiocide is proposed. This is an open access artide under the CC BY license ISSN 2545-384X (Online)

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